Now that we have ample evidence that The Right is often wildly and dangerously wrong.......
How Conservative businessmen like the Bush Family actually feed the beasts who later come and bite us....from Nazis to bin Laden...to The Business Plot to overthrow FDR.....and now, Iraq.....
This diary illustrates with pictures and clear examples how wrong is Bush's claim that the Left have "foolish delusions" - If Chamberlain and Bush had only taken the Left's warnings seriously. . . .
Image of Picasso's "Guernica"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...
September 30, 1938
On the same day Chamberlain and Hitler signed The Munich Agreement, a painting by Picasso arrived in London.
Guernica
A mural-sized tableau. Picasso's response to the horrors of war. War against innocent civilians *
Picasso was one of the many Leftists who were being ignored by the leaders of the free world.
Mark Twain said: "History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes"
. . . .on February 5, 2003, when Colin Powell made his case at the United Nations—which we now know to be totally duplicitous—for going to war against Iraq. Maureen Dowd announced in the Times that day that the U.N. "plans to throw a blue cover over Picasso’s antiwar masterpiece, Guernica." She was referring to a large tapestry reproduction that had hung for years at the entrance of the U.N. Security Council. A U.N. spokesman, she wrote, explained: "Tomorrow it will be covered and we will put Security Council flags in front of it." As Dowd remarked: "Mr. Powell can’t very well seduce the world into bombing Iraq surrounded on camera by shrieking and mutilated women, men, children, bulls and horses."
----------CONSERVATIVE LEADERS, BUSINESSMEN AND MEDIA GOT IT WRONG.
While American businessmen (Prescott Bush included) were investing in Germany in the 1930s:
1933 Hitler Elected Adolf Hitler becomes the chancellor of Germany. . . . .
Jewish Labor Committee In New York City, leaders of several trade unions, as well as other Jewish labor organizations, meet to form the Jewish Labor Committee. Its goals are to support Jewish labor groups in Europe, aid the anti-Hitler underground, help victims of Nazism, work with other American labor groups to fight anti-democratic forces, and battle anti-Semitism.
http://heritagevision.org/350/chronology.htm
----------------ILLUSTRATIONS
Labor organizations in Europe organized against the Nazis and against Fascism.
American and European Communists, ditto.
Elite intellectuals, artists, and Hollywood, ditto.
http://digital-library.csun.edu/...
------------LEFTISTS AND LIBERALS GOT IT RIGHT
While Corporate American Media was writing:
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In general, the press in both Europe and the United States—that is, the so-called journals of record—was singularly immune to the alarms the artistic and literary groupings increasingly sounded between the wars. For example, the Berlin bureau chief of the New York Times wrote as late as 1936 that there was "not the slightest evidence of religious, political or racial prejudice" in Nazi Germany’s Olympic display and it would surely "send foreigners home with excellent opinions of the effects of dictatorship and wish that democracy might sometime show itself similarly showmanlike." As Tom Reiss points out in his recent book The Orientalist, even Walter Lippmann, "probably the most influential Jewish writer in America at that time," warned readers of his nationally syndicated column that to judge Nazi Germany by its concentration camps was to judge "Protestantism by the Ku Klux Klan or the Jews by their parvenus."
http://www.brooklynrail.org/...
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Leftists were the first, and the most vigorous to oppose Fascism. The first to lay down their lives defending Freedom and Democracy.....while Prescott Bush was doing business with Nazis.....
"The Lincoln Brigade" of American volunteers fought and died in
The Spanish Civil War...
How did the American military reward them?
It seems that when the veterans of the Lincoln Brigade returned to the U.S.—the few who did—some of them wanted to enlist to fight the fascists in the Second World War. The armed forces rejected them, calling them "premature anti-fascists."
http://www.brooklynrail.org/...
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover persuaded President Roosevelt to ensure that former ALB members fighting in U.S. Forces in World War II not be considered for commissioning as officers, or to have any type of positive distinction conferred upon them.
* FOOTNOTES
"Guernica had served as the testing ground for a new Nazi military tactic - blanket-bombing a civilian population to demoralize the enemy. "
http://www.pbs.org/...
Maureen Dowd's full op-ed piece:
http://www.commondreams.org/...
Image of how Colin Powell would have looked at U.N.:
http://www.thismodernworld.com/...
Presented as a small public service: an artist's conception of the news photograph they didn't want you to see tomorrow.
The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain. The reason for covering this work is that this is the place where diplomats make statements to the press and have this work as the background. The Picasso work features the horrors of war. On January 27 a large blue curtain was placed to cover the work.
SNIP
A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate background if the ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte, or Powell, talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals shouting with horror and showing the suffering of the bombings.
Bush and his followers. Not learning from history:
http://www.commondreams.org/...
Daily Kos Diary:
"I got your Nazi appeasers right here, George!"
by 8ackgr0und N015e
http://www.dailykos.com/...
More about the Lincoln Brigade:
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was made up of volunteers from all walks of American life, and from all classes. Many of the people who volunteered for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade were official members of the Communist Party USA or affiliated with other socialist or anarchist organizations. Members of the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies") were also represented. It is sometimes thought to be the first American military unit to be commanded by a black officer, Oliver Law
http://en.wikipedia.org/...